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Paul Schrader, Writer and Director
 In a Public Lecture
"Spirituality in Films: Not Likely"
Wednesday,
September 15, 2004
8:00 p.m.
Macbride Auditorium
After graduation in 1968 from Grand Rapids’ Calvin College, Paul Schrader attended UCLA’s film school, quickly becoming a film critic for the L.A. Free Press and an editor of Cinema magazine. His thesis on Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer was published as "Transcendental Style in Film" by the University of California Press. Schrader’s first success came with this screenplay for THE YAKUZA, directed by Sydney Pollack in 1974. This was followed by his classic screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (1976). In 1977 Schrader began his own directorial career with BLUE COLLAR (Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor). In 1997 he adapted and directed Russell Banks’ AFFLICTION (Nick Nolte, James Coburn and Willem Dafoe), which was released to critical acclaim in late 1998. In 2001, he directed his fourteenth film entitled AUTOFOCUS (Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe), which was followed quickly by EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (Stellan Skarsgaard and Gabriel Mann). Schrader lives in New York with his wife, actress Mary Beth Hurt, and their two children.
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